Also executive dysfunction (fancy word for the motivation and planning it takes to do complex tasks like navigating bureaucracy) is a symptom of pretty much every mental illness ever making them the easiest population to collect a premium from then bury in paperwork and by doing so never actually have to pay out for services. When you add in having the government cut a check perr poor person to insurance companies to provide state benefits it basically becomes an infinite money glitch that churns faster the more people you force into poverty.

Yeah quitting alcohol will kill you and nicotine is still the hard one for a lot of people. My unofficial psychiatric subspecialty is violence management and nicotine is on my list of top ten reasons people will punch you right in the face along with food, perceived threats to their children, and looking like the person that diddled them as a kid. Interestingly opiate withdrawal actually won’t kill you (at least not directly), you’ll just wish it did. Benzos and barbituates totally will though they work on the same system as alcohol.

Fun fact! Nicotine paralyzes your cilia.

Your cilia are a layer of fine hairlike structures that coat most of your respiratory tract. They whip / beat together rhythmically to push debris filled mucous up and out of your respiratory tract to your pharynx where it can be expelled by coughing or swallowed and processed by your digestive tract. When you smoke, they’re paralyzed, allowing debris to build up (and man is there a lot of debris, on account of, y’know, the smoking).

About a week after you quit they wake up and yell,“WHAT THE FUCK IS ALL THIS SHIT?” Imagine if somebody came into your job and roofied you, smeared diarrhea all over the walls, then left. You’d be mad too. Give your cilia lots of water to help thin that mucous out and make their job a little easier during that stage.

Also read up on the other stages of quitting, it’ll make it much easier once you’re expecting these kinds of things.

It’s also been bred to be waaay stronger over the last couple decades. I see a fair amount of weed-induced psychosis rolling through inpatient, or at the very least weed-exacerbated psychosis. Way worse than the psychosis is the hyper-emesis syndrome. One of the characteristic symptoms is “scromiting” (Scream-Vomiting).

It’s better for you than alcohol. That’s not a high bar. A light mauling from a black bear is also better for you than alcohol. It’s waaay better for you than cigarettes but also most brain cancer starts out as lung cancer and I’ll let you follow the rest of that on your own. Most of my substance abuse patients who are hooked on shit like fentanyl and meth also tell me that nicotine is the hardest drug to quit.

Weed’s not the worst. It’s still drugs though.

…I mean I don’t wanna be that guy but… yeah that’s HCA alright. Iirc a while back they acquired a hospital in North Carolina that subsequently unionized in record time in a part of the country that is NOT union friendly, at which point HCA suddenly pulled out and took their funding. Pretty sure it was a critical access hospital too (critical access means the only hospital for miles around, usually rural). HCA is basically synonymous with capitalism in Healthcare. Even personally they once tried to illegally charge me for emergency mental health services. I’d rather quit nursing entirely than ever work for them. They are sooooo sketchy.

The details don’t match exactly but I’m thinking this is what I’m remembering.

Oh and by the way, remember how capping travel nurse wages was a big thing around that time? So typically when nurses strike they give notice then the hospital has to fill those positions, usually with travel nurses from around the country, who they have to pay to travel, get travel accommodations, get local licenses and certifications, get new uniforms, the whole 9 yards. Then their wages are also high for going to all that trouble plus a cut for the travel agency that’s helping to arrange it all. So yes, the hospital is hiring scabs, but one of the things that made that work out alright in the end is that those scabs will bleed the hospital dry pretty quickly. “Capping travel nurse pay” is an anti-union / anti-strike dogwhistle (I think I’m using that term correctly here).

You. I like you.

My only question is how to best handle children having sex with each other. Do you ban it / try to prevent it from happening at all? Do you set limits on how different they can be in age? Is there an even younger age when it’s never ok but it’s ok if they’re both older AND of similar enough age? Is age not even the right way to do it and more importantly is there a better way? Should you have to pass a class where you can prove you know how to apply a condom and obtain consent from others??? I don’t have any good answers to any of these questions but I do think they’re important to ask and talk about. The more common discussion I wind up in is juvenile substance abuse (should you let kids do drugs as long as they’re in your house so you can keep them safe? Are kids who are raised where everybody 14ish and older can have a glass of wine at the dinner table more or less likely to develop alcoholism due to the increased daily presence but decreased taboo?) but this discussion reuses a lot of the same concepts.

ok you got me try “hairy notes” but I’m still probably gonna use my original version.

Well you do gotta give Cesar back what he done minted.

Oh god eastern religions have puritans too? jk, glad to hear you’re doing well.

THAT’S MY SIGNIFIER! I’m nonbinary and pretty much all of the normal ones are gendered.

I feel like that would be the depression version of sadness but idk what the equivalent would be for the depressed intensity of happiness. Honestly from going through a thesaurus (a hobby of mine) “complacence” has almost the exact connotation but an imperfect denotation.

See if lemmy had the user base of reddit there would be ten more of this comment but each with a different YouTuber.

My safe space is tarot cards. 0 logic, all vibes.

Like the others said, it’s the exact right word for that exact level (a state of overall mood intensity that allows for anger, sadness, and happiness, but that doesn’t often go to the extremes of rage, despair, or euphoria) and I couldn’t think of a less clinical term for that exact state.

Have at it

It’s not forgetting, it’s measuring with your heart.

And Karen repeatedly murdered all of the foster children she adopted over that six year timeframe by skinning them and feeding them to the local geese. Her neighbor began noticing about 2 years in that the children would all go missing within weeks of arrival. Over the next 4 years this neighbor filed multiple complaints with the police, CPS, and the foster care agency, but all of them just said the children probably ran away. It turned out this was because Karen’s grand-step-aunt twice removed was head of the city hall floral arrangement sub-comittee…

I’m quite partial to my theracane but the main addition I would ask for is more diamonds.

Occupational therapy like physical therapy but for fine motor control (usually the hands) instead of gross motor control (like the legs). It can also refer to the neurocognitive / attentional ability to engage in complex tasks. In this context I mostly mean splints like this but it can also refer to stim jewelry for people with autism, adhd, and similar that benefit from having fidget items or other stimulating material such as a chew on hand to reduce anxiety / agitation and to help with focus. Basically if you would need it to do a desk job, it probably falls under occupational therapy, but it also includes the same skills but applied to leisure and other activities.